Make: Daily In This Issue... Make: The Shot Challenge: Winners Announced New Project: Vampire Flashlight The Beauty of Disassembled Appliances New Project: Godzilla Detector: A Retro Digital Geiger Counter Giant Interactive Camera Obscura More Recent Articles Make: The Shot Challenge: Winners Announced We know many of you have been patiently waiting, biting your nails in anticipation. The moment has finally come for us to announce the winners of the Make: The Shot Challenge. If you will recall, the contest started back in April and the goal was simple. Submit the most inventive […]        • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • New Project: Vampire Flashlight A single fully-charged AA battery is incapable of powering high-flux LEDs. However with the aid of a toroid, bipolar NPN transistor, and the popular Joule Thief circuit, you can even turn "dead" batteries into a capable flashlight power source. Read more on MAKE        • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • The Beauty of Disassembled Appliances Underneath the food-stained shell of your electric mixer lies a thoughtfully designed world of utilitarian elegance. Read more on MAKE        • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • New Project: Godzilla Detector: A Retro Digital Geiger Counter Whether it's the "Fukushima plume" or giant monsters on your mind, the classic Civil Defense CDV-715 Geiger counter has a perfect retro-style case to house a modern, sensitive digital Geiger counter. Replace its guts and add a new analog-digital LCD meter and you're ready to detect particle flux from radioactive lizards. Make:'s go-to Geiger guy John Iovine shows you how. Read more on MAKE        • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Giant Interactive Camera Obscura Stephen Takacs has created Target Six-16, a human-sized, interactive camera obscura installation to give the public an inside look at one of the world's oldest photographic devices. A camera obscura is a box or room with a hole in one side that projects an image of its surroundings on a […] Read more on MAKE        • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • More Recent Articles Kickstarter Simplifies Rules for Makers National Day of Making: White House Hosting Its Maker Faire June 18th Raspberry Pi Offers Resources for Educators New Project: Motion Activated Sprinkler Brian Archer Draws Vancouver Makers in Their Natural Habitats

 

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